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years i'll speak to dnc chair debbie wasserman-schultz. what does she think of the left's criticism of mrs. clinton's announcement? why is she focused on senator rand paul? let me know what you want me to ask her on twitter @megynkelly. thank rue for watching everybody. see you tomorrow. welcome to "hannity." tonight we're broadcasting from miami, florida, because just two hours ago florida senator marco rubio announced he's officially running for president. he'll be with us for the entire hour, but first, here's how things went down earlier today. ♪ .
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>> for almost all of human history, power and wealth belonged only to a select few. most people who have ever lived were trapped by the circumstances of their birth. destined to live the life their parents had. but america's different. because here we are the children and the grandchildren of people who refused to accept it. well, now the time has come for our generation to lead the way toward a new american century. [ cheers ] that is why tonight, grounded by the lessons of our history, but inspired by the promise of our future, i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. >> joining us now is florida senator, markco rubio. [ cheers ] thank you.
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[ cheers ] >> senator, you made your announcement today. you talked about the son of a bartender and the son of a maid and a new american century. why do you want to run for president of the united states? >> i believe this is a country that's always been defined by upward mobility, by the ability for quality of opportunity, and i feel we're losing it now. we're losing it because we're not capitalizing on the opportunities or confronting the challenges of this new era. we're not going to be able to do that as long as we're being led by people trapped in the 20th century. it's time for 21st century leadership. it's time to move forward and embrace the opportunity and challenges of this new century. and i believe i'm ready to do that and that's why i'm running for president. >> senator, the next president will inherit an economy where we have $20 trillion in debt, $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, 93 million americans outside the labor force. nearly 50 million americans in poverty. and for 40 straight months, 46-plus million americans on food stamps.
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how -- those problems seem insurmountable pop how do we solve them? how do you balance the budget? how do you get jobs? >> we're not fulfilling our potential as a nation. if we could balance our budget, reform the tax code, reduce regulations, repeal and replace obamacare. i believe the american people, and this economy will not be the bestmy myeconomy in the world but create millions of jobs. we need to help peoplee skills they need for the 21st century. right now we have an outdated 20th century education model. we need a 21st century higher education model that stops graduating people with degrees that do not lead to jobs. these are the keys to restoring economic vibrancy in this country. it's is a 1221st century approach we need to adopt. >> you talked about your candidacy, how rich and powerful, you said this is an exceptional country where you might be able to come from humble roots and then rise, you know, not somebody of power and privilege, and rise to be able to run for president of the united states. >> yeah, i think people watching
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around the world say you know, usually the highest office in the land is reserved for someone who came from power and privilege, themselves, but i live in a country where no matter where you start out in life, you can have the same dreams and the same future as someone who did come from power and privilege. >> let's talk specifics and let's talk about how do you get 93 million americans out of the labor force? how do we get them jobs? how do we get them back to work and on food stamps? >> it begins by having a vibrant 21st century economy that allows us to be globally competitive. reforming the tax code, lowering regulations, that means repealing and replacing obamacare. these are the key -- by fully utilizing our energy resources. if we did these things, we would have massive rapid economic growth in our country. the second is you have to equip people with the skills they need for those better paying jobs that economy will create, and again, we stopped graduating people from college ready to go to work. we stopped graduating people ready to go to work as welders and electricians and airplane mechanics. the other thing is we're graduating people from college with a bunch of debt, loans, and unable to find a job in the
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economy. >> how would you specifically balance the budget? i mean, it seems that if you reduce the rate of increase republicans have said they're cold and callous and don't care about the rich. they only care about the rich, they don't care about the poor, the elderly, disabled. how do we balance a budget that is so out of balance? >> first of all, it has to be the combination of spending discipline. we have to bring futuring spending under control by entitlement entitlement reform. save medicare and social security. the perhaps are going to have to look different for my generation than they did for my parents. second, we need to have dynamic economic growth which is why mike lee and i have proposed a tax reform plan that would lead to rapid dynamic economic grout growth. >> you'd reduce the corporate income tax, 25%, personal income tax from 40% to 35%. i've gone over your plan. one of the things republicans have been unable to do is use their constitutional authority, power of the purse, for example to defund obamacare. is that a mistake of the
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republican party? >> we should be aggressive about it. the truth is we need a new president to get rid of obamacare. as long as obama is president he's going to veto anything to get rid of obamacare. i hope it will be a republican majority in congress to repeal and replace obamacare. >> how do you define yourself, senator politically? >> i would say i'm a free enterprise american conservative, strong american conservative, exceptional america conservative. i believe government has a role to play but it's a limited one. the family is more important, the private sector is more important. there are things government needs to do. i believe in the safety net, not as a lifestyle, not as a way of life but a way to help people struggling to get on their feet and try again. >> one of the things that's come up regarding your candidacy you said if you run, you will not run for the senate again. is that carved in stone? >> yeah i'm running for president of the united states. that's what my campaign is about. i don't have a plan "b" to pivot back to the senate race. i intend to be the nominee. that's why think it's important
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for us to have a strong candidate in florida kbhost out there working now. if i went around talking about how i would pivot back to the senate race if things didn't work out, our best candidates may not run. >> you said the biggest issue and problem that maybe you had with tvbtives is the issue of immigration. and you went for comprehensive reform. you've since said it was a mistake and said until we prove illegal immigration can be brought under control the american people won't trust us on that. >> yeah. so that's right. >> it's not a change in position, or is it? >> no i think we still need to do immigration reform. i talked today about needing to modernize our immigration system. i think the american people are prepared to do that. not until they know that future illegal immigration is under control. and right now, they have a president that refuses to enforce the immigration laws. in fact, through executive order, order erz aed agencies not to enforce the immigration law. immigration reform as long as barack obama is president is -- we need a president to enforce our laws, put in place methods that improve the way we enforce
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the law. if we do that people will be reasonable after that about what to do with the 12 million that are here. >> that's the next question. if you think the government can prove they can secure the border and it's having a huge impact on the educational system, our health care system, our criminal justice system, if you think you can prove that with immigration what is the step, in your mind, for those 12 million people? it's not citizenship. >> well, again, i think if you're in this country and violated our immigration laws, after we've proven illegal immigration isn't going to happen in the future systems in place to keep that from happening. come forward undergo a background check, pay a fine, start paying taxes and get a work visa that alieu lieullows you to be in the country to work and travel. after that, they'd be allowed to apply for permanent residency like anybody else would not a special process. there are people out there who say, no, they should only have a work permit for the rest of
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their lives. i don't think that's a good idea. if that's the only way to move forward on it, i would explore it. >> we talk about your experience, as soon as you go out in the main stream media, liberal media they'll say why do you have the experience to be president? it didn't work out with well with senator obama coming president obama. >> first of all, president obama has been a fill failure. his ideas are bad. i don't care if he was in the senate for 50 years. his ideas don't work. there's a difference. i served nine years in the florida legislature in the majority, two speaker of the house in the third largest state in the country. i wasn't a legislative back bencher. i'll have served a full term in the senate before i'm president. i've taken seriously my role on the intelligence committee and the formeign relations committee. there's dramatic differences. what's the biggest, his ideas don't work and ours do. >> last question before we go to break here. i notice the media has been trying to pit you against jeb bush. some recent headlines. pitting locals to pick what -- forcing locals to pick sides. at odds with his mentor.
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in 20 112 rubio asked what would jeb do? what was -- what is the relationship now with the former governor? you had a very close relationship. >> we still do. hooer we're friends. i still do. i'm not running against jeb bush if he decides to run. i'm running because i believe i'm the right person at the right time for this country. voters are going to make that decision. i have tremendous respect for him as i do for other people in the race that are friends of mine that i respect. we're lucky in our party. we have many strong candidates. the democrats are struggling to come up with even one. >> it's a coronation. i'm going to talk about hillary. we have to take a break. we're just getting things started with senator marco rubio. he'll be with us for the full hour tonight. up next, i'll ask him about president obama's one-hour sit-down with the cuban president, raul castro. was that a smart move? plus tonight -- >> i'm getting ready to do something too. i'm running for president. >> she made it official. hillary clinton is running for president again. i'm going to ask senator rubio about how he plans on defeating
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her if in fact he wins the nomination. and you've. been sending questions all day on facebook and twitter. we'll ask senator rubio later on tonight as we continue from beautiful miami. stay with us. >> you see, for almost all of human history power and wealth belonged only to a select few. most people who have ever lived were trapped by the circumstances of their birth. destined to live the lives their parents had. america's different. because here we are the children and the grandchildren of people who refuse to accept it.
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by ending a near total disregard for the erosion of
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democracy and human rights around the world, especially cuba venezuela nicaragua -- [ cheers ] -- then if we did these things, then our nation would be safer our world more stable, and our people more prosperous. >> hi. welcome back to "hannity." that was senator marco rubio sharing his plans for the future of america. president obama, as you can imagine, has taken a much different approach. for example, he made it a point to talk with our longstanding enemies without any preconditions. over the weekend the president met with cuba's communist leader raul castro and just sat silent while castro actually said this. >> >>. >> translator: they came into our country as allies but they seized the country as an occupying force. i have told president obama, myself, that i am very emotional when i talk about the revolution. i an apologize to him because
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president obama has no responsibility with this, has no responsibility with this. there were ten presidents before him. >> and we can tell you with senator marco rubio, so the president of the united states occupying force and sat there while raul castro literally said that america has spent more than a century oppressing the people of cuba. >> well the person who's been oppressing the people of cuba is fidel castro and now his brother raul. i wish we would have had a president attending there that would have reminded him and the world of the regime. it's a country that enslaves 13 million people, no opportunities, no future no political freedom. it's a country that helped north korea evade united nations sanctions, gives safe harbor to fugitives, including a woman who killed a police officer, including people who stole millions of dollars from the
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taxpayers of the united states. exiles 2 million people to the united states and around the world. it's the reason why this is called the freedom power. i wish we had a president there to remind raul castro of the true nature of the castro revolution. >> this is an ongoing thing. he's apologized for america. he won't recognize radical islam. i want to go to the iranian deal. the president of iran literally said sanctions should be lifted immediately. no inspections, he said. and obama himself, the president admitted that there's a 13-year breakout, immediate zero time breakout, in other words, seal of approval for iranian nuclear weapons. what's your reaction? >> iran gets to keep all the infrastructure they need to build a nuclear weapon. continue to build not long-range markets that were untouched by the agreement continue to sponsor state terrorism all over the world. in fact, they'll have more money to do it now as the sanctions are lifted. you're right it could be less than 13 years. if they follow the north korean model, over the next 13 years they'll cook up with a reason to
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build a weapon and retain it because they have what they need to enrich it. >> before you sit down with a state sponsor of terror like iran, country like that, cuba, the case of iran, they said the destruction is unnegotiable in the middle of negotiations they said that, in the middle of negotiations they were chanting death to america. if you were president and that was happening in the middle of negotiations what would a president marco rubio do? >> first of all, if i were president, when i am president, the first message sent to iran is either have an economy or nuclear weapon but you cannot have both, in fact, you won't get the weapon no matter what because if necessary, we'll take whatever steps necessary to prevent you from pursuing that. the second point is any negotiation with iran should have included three elements. no long-range market, no sponsorship of terrorism around the world, and no enrichment. in addition to that, there should have been a clear recognition on their part that israel has a right to exist as a
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jewish state. >> that has to be a precondition. in the middle of negotiations if they're saying the destruction of israel is nonnegotiable, should that be a deal killer? >> absolutely. again, this is a country that's made clear they want to destroy a strong ally of the united states. they're building a mechanism of delivery of a destructive weapon, long-range market. we know they've made significant process in the enrichment of uranium which is what it takes to build the weapons and they get to retain that in place. in the end, this deal leads at some point over the next five, seven years into a threshold of nuclear power. >> as a president, would you do anything it took, even if militaryily to prevent them from getting weapons? >> absolutely. the way the president pursued this deal is not binding on a future congress or future president. >> why can't the president say radical islam? >> i have no idea. i don't know the answer to that other than perhaps the best i can think of is he thinks that radical islam's problem with america is a grievance of some sor sort, they don't like something
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we've done. it's not a grievance. it's an ideological difference not just with america but the world. the case of isis, they want everyone to live according to their radical interpretation of sunni islam or be burned or be beheaded. that's the nature of that. by the way, there are millions of muslims around the world that call it radical islam as well. >> what about a rubio docket rick? >> the rubio doctrine would be is the united states is the most indispensable power on the planet. vat for example, we need to be involved in the asia-pacific region, reinvigorate alliances with south korea, japan, the file means philippines and others, to blunt reactions you see from russia, chip that china, on the territorial claims. russia, reinvigorate nato. stop putin's efforts to relitigate the end of the war. >> vietnam, we lost many americans, many injured, lost 4,000 in iraq, many others were injured. we start wars, we politicize them we pull out too early.
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iraq, for example now has been taken over by isis. fallujah, mosul, tikrit. cities that we had taken we had won. victory at hand. how do we ask american men and women to fight for this country then we lose these wars seemingly politically after the fact? >> well first of all, in iraq, after the end of the war, there was stability in that country. not perfect. it was a stable country. then the u.s. pulled out. what happened is maliki used that as a license to go after the sunni population. that's what created some of the conditions that allowed isis to return into the country. that is a direct result of the u.s. withdrawal from iraq premature prematurely. you're seeing the same mistake potentially made in afghanistan now. >> let me ask you about a comment dick cheney made, the former vice president saying obama would do exactly what one would do to take america down. created a lot of controversy. >> i can tell you his foreign policy has been deeply destructive.
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the architect of his failed foreign policy running for president of united states. whether it was the reset with russia, whether it was outreach to iran and all these sorts of things, on issue after issue the obama foreign policy has been an abject failure. >> we're going to pick it up there. we're going to talk about hillary when we get back and much more. this is up next tonight on "hannity." >> i'm getting ready to go something, too. i'm running for president. >> hillary clinton makes it official. senator marco rubio will react to her announce thement right after the break. later, we'll answer your questions you submitted on facebook and twitter as we continue from beautiful miami. >> i've heard some suggest that i sho turn. but i cannot because i believe our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake and i can make a difference as president.
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just yesterday a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday. yesterday's over. [ cheers ] >> welcome back to "hannity." we are in miami tonight. just a few hours ago senator marco rubio announced he's running for president. over the weekend hillary clinton became the first democrat maybe even the only democrat, to throw her name into the ring for 2016. by releasing this video officially kicking off her campaign. take a look. >> americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. everyday americans need a champion, and i want to be that champion. so you can do more than just get by. you can get ahead and stay ahead
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because when families are strong, america is strong. so i'm hitting the road to earn your vote. because it's your time and i hope you'll join me on this journey. >> all right. as we continue with senator marco rubio you know, very interesting, you said yesterday a leader from yesterday, to take us back to yesterday. yesterday's over, and we're never going back. laying out a very distinct difference already between you and maybe the -- >> we should be very proud of our history as a country, but we've always been about the future and the 21st century is a dramatically different time than the 20th century. developing faster. the challenges are different. the global challenges are different. while we always want be proud of our past there's work we need to do now to fully capitalize on the opportunity of the future and we need leaders that understand that. and i think oftentimes when you see some of the policies being proposed out there by different
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people, they're policies that don't work anymore. some never worked. they work even worse now. >> how closely do you see her policies to president obama's policies? >> many rmtespect si think it's going to be a continuation. she was a member of his administration. she was the architect of his foreign policy. you have to assume she's going to continue his trajectory in terms of foreign policy. it's been a disaster for america so far. >> recent poll comes out and shows a vast majority in swing states, three of them don't view hillary as honest and trust worthy. is that a hard perception to overcome? >> part of it is a long history of things that are come out, her husband's administration, her time as secretary of state but i think part of it is some of these recent revelations that we've read. think the biggest issue was missed in regards to her e-mails and so forth, by using a private server, sensitive american, potentially sensitive american diplomatic conversations, not classified but sensitive, could have been exposed to a hacker or
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someone gaining access to it. look, i think at the core of this campaign is the fundamental question, what kind of country do we want to be in the 21st century who has the best ideas and best proposals to get us to the right place? >> let's talk about the server, though. she destroyed the server. she made the sole decision independently -- >> that's a bizarre activity. most people don't go around destroying the server. >> i don't know anybody who has. >> adds more suspicion and more questions. i think this is part of a longer pattern that we've seen in the past from them, but ultimately this election is going to be about the future of america and about who's got the best agenda to move the country forward in the 21st century. >> one big issue for me, it's come up now, more and more people talking about it, she says is it time for a woman to be president? we find out the clinton foundation, bill, hillary, chelsea clinton foundation, took money from countryies that have atrocious human rights records for women, gays lesbians, et cetera. do you see hypocrisy there? >> you can make that case very strongly.
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again, look they're out there raising money for their noun foundation. they'll have to answer questions about the people who gave you money, more importantly, whether those donations were intended to influence public policymaking. whether it's as her time as secretary of state, later on now as a candidate trying to be president. the point you make is a good one. that is if you look at what the goals of the foundation was, what the goals of our foreign policy should be in terms of defending human rights and look to where this money is coming from, these are places where women aren't allowed to drive. >> saudi arabia would be one of them. nor can they be seen in public with a man they're not related to, nor build a christian church in saudi arabia. let's look at her time as secretary of state. russian reset, then ukraine. after the kill of bin laden she said his ideology of hatred is being rejected in the mideast. that's being wrong on two very significant issues. >> yeah, our relations with russia have definitely been reset but not in the way they claimed they would be.
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what's happened now is putin has aggressively moved forward, relitigating, trying to rewrite the end of the cold war. he claims any country that was a former soviet republican including now he's saying former warsaw countries have to be in the russian sphere of influence. >> how to we deal with putin? >> reinvigorate nato. the ability of nato to change the cost benefit risk analysis putin has to go through before he carries on these attacks. look, ukraine over the next few weeks there's going to be a in offensive. he's going to violate the cease-fire, see a spring offensively the separatists backed up even by russian troops. the other question was about bin laden and his ideology. today there are more radical jihadist groups around the world than ever before in more countries. it's now splintered into isis, present from afghanistan libya, iraq, syria, throughout north africa. >> let me talk about terror because i think it is probably the biggest issue that we face.
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i assume you agree. >> absolutely. >> she once called assad a reformer. that was in march of 2011. iraq fell into the hands of isis during her tenure as secretary of state. it began to. egypt she supported the former head of the muslim brotherhood, muhammad morsi gave f-16s, tanks and billions of dollars and in to 12, the clinton state department refused to designate boko haram a terrorist organization. >> it's a startling record. going through each one for a moment, you talk about egypt for a moment, what happened in egypt was unfortunate because they pushed them into elections before the country was ready for those elections. we all want to see a democracy emerge anywhere possible but egypt wasn't ready for an election at that moment. they pushed them so hard to have an election that at that moment early after the revolution the only group capable of winning that election was the brotherhood. they're the only ones that were organized for many years. you touched upon the assad example. assad was never a reformer. he's a killer like his father before him. has an atrocious human rights
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record. damascus is a point for every terrorist group transiting through the region. they're a proxy and puppet of the iranian regime. for them to call them a reformer is absurd. >> do you think the iranian regime, look at it closely, they want influence in iraq they have influence in syria and now they're down in yemen and could literally between the straits of hormuz and the straits outside -- >> the iranian influence is now being felt in syria, in iraq in lib -- lebanon. >> yemen. >> yemen and bahrain. you're starting to see that. you're going to continue to see the spread of iranian influence in the region, but in addition, we have multiple instances of iranian sponsorship of terrorism including an effort to assassinate the saudi ambassador a couple of years ago in washington, d.c. >> we're going to take a break. we'll come back. more with senator marco rubio. he announced he's running for president. also we're going to be asking your questions as we continue. stick around. >> i know my candidacy might
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our generation rose to face the great challenges of our time, and because we did, and because we did there was still one place in the world where who you come from does not determine how far you go. because we did. because we did the american miracle lived on. >> that was senator marco rubio from earlier today during his announcement that he is running for president and he continue with senator rubio.
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all right. if you were elected hillary would be the first female president, barack obama the first black american president. you'd be the first hispanic-american president. should that mean something? does it mean something? >> listen, the presidency is too important to nominate someone on how you pronounce their last name, where they parents came from. it's something for our country to be proud of. we know that about our country already. you have people in america who are the children of immigrants, descendants of former slaves, who are women young people who are men, for that matter. as a nation, that's our identity as a nation. we're a place of upward mobility and equality of opportunity and it reminds us the fundamental challenge before us now is that that is eroding for millions of americans and we need to restore it. i most definitely believe that the most important thing we need to do is have the next president of the united states be someone who understands both america's role in the world and government's role in our lives. >> yeah. let me ask you about some of the social issues that will come up
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i'm sure a lot during the campaign, especially the liberal media loves to bring it up as wedge issues and put republicans on defensive. but you mentioned every american life is sacred in your speech. do you make any exceptions on abortion? rape, incest, mother's life? >> i believe human life is valuable irrespective of the circumstances of its creation and deserve the protection of our law. if i'm president and the only law that can pass is one that has exceptions that means we're still going to save millions of lives. i personally belief life begins at conception and all human life is worthy of protection. >> let's talk about the indiana religious freedom restoration act, or the arkansas religious freedom restoration act or the one that bill clinton signed in 1993. became a big issue in indiana. what is your reaction to that? and what do you do when it's religious freedom and it goes against -- >> well, we need to separate this issue because there's two issues at play. one is discriminating against a that person's background, their preference, their ethnicity. that's wrong. we all believe that's wrong and
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immoral. no i don't believe a gay person or lesbian person we're not going to offer you service. there's a difference between discriminating against the person saying i don't want to offer services to an event. same-sex wedding is an event. it's not a person. it is an event that's going on. i don't think ewe can force someone to participate or provide professional services to an event that goes contrary to the teachings of their faith, in fact, forces them to violate their own religious -- >> in other words that would be constitutional, but free exercise thereof in your mind? >> it doesn't mean the exercise of it in your home but your life. that doesn't mean you can go around discriminating against people. to decide i won't participate in an activity, in this case a same-sex wedding because it violates my faith, it's something that's constitutionally protected. >> common core. a big issue. role of government in education. >> i believe the state government and local governments have an important role to play in education. when i was speaker of the house, i promoted things like curriculum reform. i don't think we need a national
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standard or federal standard for turning thede department of education into a national school board. i think we are best served when we have states competing against each other for better quality, better standards, better curriculum. i fear common core is already being used by the department of education as a stick, not as a carrot, to force local school districts to adopt the standards they want them to have. >> let's talk about, do you think america has an issue a race problem? by that i mean trayvon martin, george zimmerman, ferguson, missouri, this recent shooting by a police officer of an unarmed man running away. do you think we have racial -- >> every case is different, and so my point is, yeah, there are millions of americans -- i've spoken to millions of young african-americans who feel as if they are targeted by the police they've had experiences with the police that they're very concerned about. quite frankly, sean i've seen it, i've witnessed it myself. not necessarily with police but maybe a friend of yours if you go to a store or something and hear the stories when they come
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back back, that they were followed around. not every instance that involves unfortunately an african-american victim or white police officer or person is necessary indicative of a race problem. we need to be careful about that, but at the end of the day we have to recognize there are millions of young african-americans in this country who feel like they're treated differently both by law enforcement and sometimes by individuals and that's something we have to acknowledge and address. >> how does the republican party get more black americans, more hispanic americans, more women, in other words, in most elections, barack obama the last two presidential elections received 90-some-odd percent of the black vote in america. when you break -- >> opportunity and upward mobility, an agenda that says we're going to help the people trying to get ahead. we're always a country no matter where you start out, should be able to go as far as your talent and work will take you. that's an attend that applyies to all americans irrespective of your heritage, background or where you came from. i don't necessarily believe we need to tailor messages for one ethnic group versus another.
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welcome back to "hannity." now, i'll answer your questions. on facebook and on twitter. so, we're going to start with claire who writes us on facebook. she writes, "are you prepared to
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repeal obamacare and fully stop illegal immigration?" >> two separate issues. first of all, obamacare needs to be repeal and replaced. we've begun the process of explaining to people we're going to get rid of obamacare and replace it with the opportunity to buy health insurance of the kind you want with your pretax money from any company in america across statelines that will still it to you. and i imagine what they're asking about the executive amnesty. >> right. >> absolutely, that would be reversed. it needs to be reversed. it undermines our system of immigration and makes it more difficult to modernize that system and encouraging people to come here illegally. >> a lot of conservatives have been frustrated. i was speaking with this woman behind me with this beautiful baby right here and she was asking about mark levin's idea in his book "the liberty amendments" about the conventions of the states. in other words, constitutionally, change the constitution in some ways but the states have to be involved in it. what's your reaction? >> first of all, i think mark's idea is very interesting, brilliant really as he is a very
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intelligent person. i think ultimately that's what i always warn my colleagues is going to happen. if we don't find out a way to balance our budget, get our fiscal house in order the people through the states are going to do it for us and there won't be anymore >> the way medicare looks you're going to have look at my generation. not my mother and people on it now? >> old people, like me. >> my generation is going to have to accept this is going to be different than our parents. >> tell what yous you can do for this country. i don't want to hear what your opponent can't do. what are your top item agendas? >> we need to do a globally
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competitive market tax reform, regulatory reform, utilize our energy resources and in combination with economic growth will make us the greatest economy in the world. we're going to reform higher education so people don't graduate with loans and degrees that don't lead to jobs so pechl can get skills for a better job and graduate more kids from high school ready to work as welders and electricians and reinvigorate the american military. >> question five, if i can, senator rubio what distinguishes you from the other candidates for us to vote for you? >> well that is an interesting question. it's good for the republican party and america. if we go through the process of having debate, people will see what differences are. i will say this. i have prepared to debate with anyone else running on this race and have outlined a detailed
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policy proposal. we can tell you what laws on each one of the issues. >> you said this is something you'd do as president but not senator? >> on all issues you feel it's a reason you made this decision you feel you cannot do these things as a senator? >> i believe we can help lead this country into the 21 century z that is what we have to do now. >> question four i know another twitter question. america has lost respect world wide how can we restore that in the international field? >> that begin was a change of leadership. to make it clear we're committed to our allies around the world. it's good to be america's friend, bad to be our enemy. we're gutting our military capability in this country now. that has an impact on the way the world views us.
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its own. we have to continue to keep the flame alive and right now we're not we have leaders trapped in the past. we need to do three things we have to have a globally competitive economy, help our children and young people acquire skills to succeed and need a strong america on the global stage strong with allies and strong against the enemies. that is what i want to help lead us to as your president i'm asking for your vote and support. >> we've got to get this economy growing again we need to get rid of illegal executive orders the president put into place. and third we have to make america stronger. that means presidential leadership to reverse the cuts to military spending. >> senator marco rubio. thank you.
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thanks for joining us. see you tomorrow night. the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> give me one accomplishment that hillary clinton succeeded n her tenure. >> we're talking myanmar. >> myanmar? that's what she is going to do? >> hillary clinton announcing she will run for president. now she has to defend her record. we will analyze it with charles krauthammer. >> hillary is the videos now? i mean if they could have done that in the 90's, i would be in jail. [ laughter ] >> "saturday night live" spoofing hillary's quest. is that a good or a bad thing? >> what do you think president obama's biggest accomplishment has been. >> becoming the first african-american president. >> after becoming president he didn't accomplish anything else? >> well --